This is just to say that I didn't mean to put this off

“This is Just to Say,” William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Yes I'm doing another poem again. I just like poetry. I wish we could does known artists though that would be cool. Either way I am going to be talking about this poem today. The first feeling that I get from this poem is one of blissful defiance. Yes he knows that he broke a silent pact, but it made him happy so it's okay in the long run. The tone that the speaker is using in this poem is not one of great repentance or of excessive worry, he seems to be taking it easy, like he knows that the owner of the plums will easily forgive him. It seems as though something like this had occurred in the past, like the owner of the plums should not have left the speaker alone with them because the owner should have known what would happen.  The way the lines are set up, how they are all so short and simple, also sheds light on how the speaker feels about the situation. He is not trying to cover up anything with a silver tongue, he is simply stating the facts. He feels that he has nothing to be guilty of.  There is a curious mixture of selfishness and unselfishness in this poem. The selfish part is most obvious since he simply at the plums because they were delicious, sweet, and cold. Te unselfish part is slightly more subtle. Although he does not apologize, the act of leaving a note is a sort of kind gesture to the owner of the plums. He is turning himself in, keeping the plum owner from extensive wonder. He also acknowledges that the owner was probably going to eat them for breakfast. This shows that he did not just mindlessly eat the plums because they were there, he ate them clearly aware of their purpose and the fact that he admits that is pretty selfless. Another interesting part of the poem is the use of the word icebox. That of course con notates a feeling of cold, frigidness, similar to the seemingly cold relationship between the plum water and the plum owner is. Oh I just thought of something. The cold motif  and the fruit motif cod be combined to show a different meaning in the poem. The fruit eating could be a loss of innocence or purity and the cold motif could be the peoples feelings towards what happened. The speaker does not seem particularly happy about what happened, he may Ben be silently regretful, something that may be seen in someone who made some sort of innocence losing mistake.  This could be connected to a literal loss of purity such as sex of course. Another thing to note in this poem is that the plums were meant for breakfast,  so they were meant for the morning.  The morning connotates discomfort, grumpiness, anger.  So maybe the  speaker was even trying to enjoy the forbidden fruit before it spoiled in the morning. Interesting.